Edition 2021

RETHINK EVERYTHING

THE POWER OF ART IN TIMES OF ISOLATION

Here and now, we are traversing an unrepresentable pandemic time. Strange times, testing the very concept of humanity. We can rethink everything. Feminism is a rhizomatic theory and practice that also addresses questions of the post-human and production of the common. A theory of affection and the body, of the public affair, the transformation of social relationships, and of the home as an observatory for the analysis of a new economic policy of life. A feminism that merges with the profound questioning of the contemporary consequences of global capitalism and that emerges to observe notions of community, the breakdown of anthropocentric models and human exceptionalism. We want to rethink, with an attentive eye, latent meanings in artworks made in other contexts. Each object, each photograph, each film in this exhibition generates a magnetic field that creates friction with everything that approaches it. Each one provides material from which to rethink possible forms of the world.

María José Arjona (1973), Ananké Asseff (1971), Colectivo Nosotras Proponemos (2017), Nicola Costantino (1964), Milagros De La Torre (1965), Vivian Galban (1969), María Teresa Hincapié (1956–2008), Adriana Lestido (1955), Florencia Levy (1979), Marcos López (1958), Liliana Maresca (1951–1994), Joiri Minaya (1990), Marta Minujín (1943), Aline Motta (1974), Rodrigo Orrantia (1975), Jackie Parisier (1968), Cristina Piffer (1953), Santiago Porter (1971), Dalila Puzzovio (1942), José Alejandro Restrepo (1959), Silvia Rivas (1957), Celeste Rojas Mugica (1987), Graciela Sacco (1956 – 2017), Juan Travnik (1950).

Exhibition curator: Andrea Giunta, in collaboration with Florencia Giordana Braun, Julieta Tarraubella and Florencia Rugiero.
Exhibition produced by Rolf Art, in collaboration with the Rencontres d'Arles.
Publication: Puisqu'il fallait tout repenser, delpire & co., 2021 (French edition) ; Rethink Everything, delpire & co, 2021 (English edition) ; Pensar todo de nuevo, Ediciones Larivière, 2021 (Spanish edition).
Framing by Circad, Paris.
Thanks to MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano), Buenos Aires.

With support from the Institut Français of Argentina, the Argentine Embassy in France, the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worships.

  • Institutional partners

    • République Française
    • Région Provence Alpes Côté d'Azur
    • Département des Bouches du Rhône
    • Arles
    • Le Centre des monuments nationaux est heureux de soutenir les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles en accueillant des expositions dans l’abbaye de Montmajour
  • Main partners

    • Fondation LUMA
    • BMW
    • SNCF
    • Kering
  • Media partners

    • Arte
    • Lci
    • Konbini
    • Le Point
    • Madame Figaro
    • France Culture